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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Sure, but to get to that point I'd have to suffer serious psychic damage... not too unlikely in a wartime situation. | As a soldier could you enjoy killing someone? |
| 22 | "nearest sharp object" is closest, though I'm somewhat more discriminating than that. | How do you remove a sliver(splinter)? |
| 23 | lion, 'cuz I keep hearing about him but haven't met him yet. | If you could meet one person who you regularly see commenting on Survey Central, who would it be? |
| 24 | romkey - indeed I have, and a pleasure it was, too. I've even gotten a tour of his house (and yours). So do I have to revote now?  | If you could meet one person who you regularly see commenting on Survey Central, who would it be? |
| 25 | There's something disturbing about assigning a "best" option to the most upsetting of these. In any case, the age ranges matter less to me than the events. | Rank how upsetting the following scenario's would be for you |
| 26 | mm, tough to answer globally. For me there's a distinction between jokes that depend for their humor on characteristics of a particular sex, race, or sexual practice, and those that depend for their humor on the simple fact of disparaging or specifying a sex, race, or sexual practice. The latter bother me more than the former. For example, the sleeping-scotsman joke immortalized in song and story is certainly sexist, in that it depends on and propagates certain stereotypes about men and their relationships to their genitalia, but it doesn't bother me. Similarly, I normally find sexually explicit jokes embarassing, but not offensive unless they depend entirely on the shock value inherent in being sexually explicit and aren't otherwise clever or funny. I'm assuming the author meant traditional sexist/racist/sexually explicit jokes, though, so I checked all three. | Which of these jokes do you normally find offensive ? |
| 27 | If I take "masculine/feminine traits" to mean "traits one sex has that the others don't" (penises, for example) I'd prefer they have neither ("independent") 'cuz it would be more interesting that way. If I take it to mean "traits common to both but traditionally associated with one" (aggression, for example) I'd prefer they have both (like the two existing sexes do) 'cuz otherwise I'd have a damned hard time relating to members of that third sex. | If a third sex was created, would you prefer them to have masculine traits in them, female traits in them or be completely independent ? |
| 28 | If you can really set things up so there are "wars" that don't leave anyone poverty-striken, that is so unlike what we have historically called "war" as to render the phrase "war but no poverty" practically uninterpretable, but I guess I'd prefer it to the "poverty but no war" state. | Which of these scenario's would you prefer ? |
| 29 | topper - I'm intrigued by the concept of a "roving war"... just keep the war going but change the participants as the current crop get tired? Perhaps we could set up a kind of tag-team system, like wrestling matches... when Iraq gets tapped out, they pass the baton to Libya and we bomb them for a while... odd notion. | Which of these scenario's would you prefer ? |
| 30 | I feel a sharp discontinuity of identity at around 16 or 17, but after that it's less clear. Sometimes I feel I'm basically the same person; sometimes I feel like I haven't changed at all; sometimes I feel like I have nothing in common with that person. Then again, sometimes I experience sharp discontinuity of identity in a single day, sometimes in the middle of a sentence... | Do you feel you are basically the same person as you were X years ago? |
